"Simple shapes with nice details." That, according to Giles Deacon, is what he enjoys about designing pre-collections. But such a bland summation doesn't come anywhere near close to pinning down the delirious essence of his latest Resort range. Poised awkwardly between the chilly rigor of the marble statuary he'd photographed at Castle Howard (the stately home where Brideshead Revisited was filmed) and the slapdash vigor of Making Paper, the design app he uses on his iPad, the clothes were an unhinged hybrid of classic and cartoon. A lot of the statues Giles photographed were missing their heads, so he topped them with one of his own drawings. The clash of trompe l'oeil marble drape and googly-eyed popstrel was even more extreme when printed on a silk evening dress that dipped to an elegant bow at the base of the spine. It was the sort of languid silhouette you'd imagine one of the legendarily game Mitford sisters sporting at a Castle Howard house party back in the 1930's. Except for that print, of course, and the fact that Giles had slathered the bodice with hologram sequins. "Rave Mitford," he called it. In that spirit, there was also a tank and skirt combination that might have made a tennis outfit for a Mitford, except that it was in pink Lurex. Likewise the pleated, racer-backed, princess-line Lurex dress that felt ready for a rave at Wimbledon. (The designer dresses Li Na, China's top female tennis player.)